US Woman Who Led All-Female ISIS Battalion Charged With Planning Attacks
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The woman's work for the ISIS included training children in the use of AK-47 rifles and suicide belts, said the US Justice department.
An American woman who allegedly led an all-female ISIS battalion in Syria has been charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist group, the US Justice Department announced Saturday.
The woman, identified as Allison Fluke-Ekren, formerly of the US state of Kansas, had been named in a sealed criminal complaint filed in 2019 in a federal Virginia court, the government statement said.
Among other things, it said she had planned an attack on a US college campus and spoke of organizing a devastating attack on an American shopping mall.
The statement said the 42-year-old Fluke-Ekren -- who has used at least five aliases -- had been apprehended previously in Syria but was transferred into FBI custody on Friday.
